openness
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openness
Where it comes from
From Middle English *opennesse, from Old English openness (“openness, publicity”), equivalent to open + -ness. Cognate with Old High German offannussi (“disclosure, revelation, openness”).
noun opennesses
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see open, -ness.
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Accommodating attitude or opinion, as in receptivity to new ideas, behaviors, cultures, peoples, environments, experiences, etc., different from the familiar, conventional, traditional, or one's own.
Getting iced out by the tech giants turned Parler into a cause célèbre for conservatives who complained they were being censored, as well as a test case for the openness of the internet.
Similar: open-mindedness, approachability
- The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
- Lack of secrecy; candour, transparency. "Instead of openness, there was the cunning tactics of cover-up and a complete failure by General De Chastelain to deal with the vital numerics of decommissioning," said Ian Paisley, 79, the Protestant preacher who heads the Democratic Unionists, Northern Ireland's largest party.
- The degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing.
- The degree to which a system operates with distinct boundaries across which exchange occurs capable of inducing change in the system while maintaining the boundaries themselves.
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Closest in meaning: receptivity, receptiveness, open-minded, open-mindedness, honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, frankness, frankly, frank, forthrightness, directness, overt, regularity, public, willingness
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noun degree to this attitude is exhibited
| Ελληνικά | ανοικτότητα anoiktótita |
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noun accommodating attitude or opinion
| Español | apertura |
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| Italiano | apertura |
| Ελληνικά | ανοικτότητα anoiktótita, ανοιχτότητα anoichtótita |
| Русский | открытость otkrytostʹ |
| עברית | פתיחות ptiḥut |
noun lack of secrecy, transparency
| Kiswahili | uwazi |
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| Italiano | trasparenza |
noun computing: degree of accessibility
| Italiano | apertura |
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